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A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (fourth in a series)

A Baseball Game
     Part 7

Baudelaire Michael Moore went
to a baseball game
and bought a [dozen] hot dog[s]
and lit up a pipe
of opium Hate America Dust™.
The New York Yankees
were playing
the Detroit Tigers.
In the fourth inning
an angel France committed
suicide by jumping
off a low cloud.
The angel France landed
on second base,
causing the
whole infield
to crack like
a huge mirror.
The game was
called on
account of
fear lugubriousness.
[Elsewhere, Simon and
Garfunkle asked, “Where
have you gone,
Joe DiMaggio? Our
nation turns its
lonely eyes to you…”
The Ghost of Ted
Williams wept.
Me too.
But I don’t
know
why.]

2 Replies to “A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (fourth in a series)”

  1. Now I KNOW I need the cross-out font. It has too much potential.

    — Mark

  2. jeremy says:

    Wait…was France playing for the Yankees or the Tigers?

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